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gioele / pw

pw

a unix password manager

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
23GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

a unix password manager

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-08-01 05:37:09 UTC to 2017-07-21 17:45:22 UTC.

01232014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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Check out pw, my alternative to pass, designed because of the reason you mentioned: I don't want my password manager to leak the list of services I use. https://github.com/gioele/pw In pw each password database is a single file, the internal indexes are random IDs. Each line in a database is a serialized GPG file with a password and associated metadata. The file format is git-compatible and everything can be managed with standard command line tools.
In Pass: A standard Unix password manager
I'll use this as an opportunity to give a shout out for my own unix password manager that I started writing because I did not like some design choices of pass: pw [1]. From the homepage: > pw is an alternative to pass, keepassx and other similar programs. > The main points of pw are: > * The passwords are stored using a simple line-based text format. > * Passwords can be protected using public-key encryption or symmetric encryption. Or both. > * No information about the accounts is stored in clear-text. > * All the work is done using only GPG and Unix tools. > * The output is easy to use in pipeline with other tools. > * Follows the XDG Base Directory specification: no clutter in your home directory. [1] https://github.com/gioele/pw
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